Sean McCarthy’s work is enigmatic, unsettling, and darkly comic. He renders the sagging crevasses and withered underbellies of a beastly world in a state of fantastic violence. McCarthy is an extraordinary draftsman with influences as wide ranging as early Paul Klee etchings and Himalayan religious painting, while his primal dramas recall the 19th Century decadent tradition where imagery conjured a darkness far more vibrant than the banality of our everyday evil.